I’m guessing it is some sort of tree spirit that was guardian of her village. The village was destroyed, and her grandfather was killed during its fight with something equally as large, but this one lost the fight.

I’ve been waiting for this ever since I saw the original sketches in the lj… aaaaaaaah!

It looks amazing, and the atmosphere… oooh. Her grandfather reminds me greatly of some latin american myth… I can’t remember anymore… I feel like a terrible latina now. But still! Amazing! Awesome, Alexds!

the mudpuppy’s body seems…. awkward? he’s cute though. and yeah i caught the back foot error too XP
his front feet just dont really seem to fit where the rest of his body would be…

but i definitely thought he was a giant tree until i read the first comment, and i didnt even see angora until a few minutes later haha. but i really love the colors, i wish your comics were more often or longer per page!! :D love them!

I was the same way when I first saw it Stephanie. I didn’t even realize it was a creature and not a tree until I read the first comment. And I think that it may have been fighting something with huge claws as well because some of the marks seem like someone (or something for that matter) just clawed through him. Like the marks on the very front of his face seem like claw marks to me. But that just might be me lol. I can’t wait for the next update I’m really excited!

And I wish that it would update more often too. However I understand the whole “having a job” thing kinda getting in the way ;P Keep up the great work! I’m actually voting for this webcomic everyday lol

Now thats a really intersting twist and I really like it, it means there’s more to this than just a coragus young woman lost in the jungle and finding friends but there may be a deep rooted mythos behind everything.

I’m wondering if Grampa isn’t the spirit of the forest, or some such, and all the logging is killing him. My current theory, based on the limited amount of information I have, is that he endowed Angora with special powers, evidenced by her green hair, so that she could go “do something” about him getting killed.
I’m quite prepared to be entirely wrong, of course :D

I dunno what everyone’s on about. I like the weird legs. It makes everything all crazypants and out of the blue. It had this insane impact, and I’m sure that part of that was just the fact that I had to try and get my bearings first. I think changing the feet would be a shame.

I don’t really think the leg is backwards, honestly. I can see how it could be perceived that way, and of course, it’s your art so you know how it should look. But the way he’s wrapped around the page, I would imagine he’d have his leg kind of angled that way for balance.

Cave salamanders are different from mudpuppies! This guy in the comic is a giant-ish sort of cave salamander thing. Though I can see how you could mistake it for a mudpuppy, since both salamanders are paedomorphic (which means they retain their juvenile characteristic -the gills- into adulthood).

That would then explain the axolotl inferences, then, as they’re the neoteny of a particular species of salamander!

(In a fantastical overthinking on this, it makes me think that he had a lot more years in him, and eventually grow into a giant salamander. That if there are any other of his species, he’d only be a child.)

The evulsed or torn skin on his head makes me cringe every time! (And I’m not squeamish at all–our EMT instructors loved flashing really disgusting photos at the greenies, lol.) While a lot of the cuts are claws, are those puncture wounds on the top VERY left on his tail?

Wow crazy twist of events. He looks like a huge skinny Greater Siren with trees for gills and an extra pair of legs. Crazy cool.

But I just noticed that in that last panel, the rain is drawn to look like you are looking straight down at them, but the angle at which you drew Angora makes it look more like you’re looking at them from an angle, as if you were perched on the top of a nearby tree, rather than straight above them.

Does that make any sense?

Anyways, wonderful comic. This is the first time I’ve commented on it, but I love it. Your style of lines and colors is totally unique and unlike any comic I’ve ever seen. How you manage to do it all and still post once a week is baffling to me. Amazing work.

I have to admit I like the tangle of legs too–it fits with the confusion of the sudden appearance of the salamander and how battered up he is–but until you said so in the comments I didn’t realize Angora’s hair is supposed to be brown. It’s so close to the color of the mud that I figured it was either dirty or that you’d given the comic a sepia coloring to reflect the sad mood. I remember having this same thought when you showed a panel of Angora like this earlier in the comic… The hair isn’t green, but it isn’t QUITE a natural brown either…

And one last thing: Grandpa’s gills look REALLY cool XD I love the way you colored them. I kept scrolling back up to look at them as I wrote this :D

Your comic is beautiful, and I’m really looking forward to its progress. I know you put a lot of effort into your artwork, and I want you to know that, at least for this reader, it’s really appreciated. The colors are deep, the style is refreshing, and somehow it invigorates my imagination. Great work!

being a grandfather doesn’t mean to be “human” (less in the case of angora, nothing is conventional with her XD ) It was suspecting it when she spoke with the little salamander before, although
unfortunately I knew it from your wiki, is too much spoiling… :(

so, her grandfather was severed, I wonder why…

by the way, I liked this page very much! It is very well made and It means a lot for the story so far!

By the gods, I think I’m starting to understand this story but I’ve only read the first three chapters and seen artwork… Man, I hope you never stop making this comic ’cause I wanna see it end, I really do.

May one politely inquire if one of your influences is Mononoke-Hime? The anatomy of the salamander (Mocheril?) reminds me greatly of the Forest God. A definite good thing, as I love that movie-and
Hayao Miyazaki’s other works.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! …. Errrrr, or something like that. ;)
I quite like the idea of the white salamander, but it’s a bit confusing – where is her trunk from page 27?! At first I thought that I’ve missed one page… ;)

… That’s her grandfather? ;P Either way, that’s one ginormous salamander… and looks like he’s been on the wrong end of a beat-down. Which makes me wonder who could beat up on the ginormous salamander. O_O

I find it interesting that everyone is commenting that she has CLOTHES and no one is commenting that her hair is a traditional color. We are definitely in flash back, I might even say nightmare, and she looks JUST like she did in the flashback on pg 20 as well.
Hello, grandfather.
I wonder if this dream will be used to tell her something she needs to know as well as reminding her of what she has already heard,

Have some of the previous pages been redone since they were put up? Not to imply that your pages aren’t all freaking amazing (because they are, and the writing’s great, and I love this comic), but today I hit Previous a few too many times and for some reason the page I had seen before looked different and made me go “oooooh, so pretty. And look at that lighting! Was the lighting that awesome before? How could I have missed that when I saw it?” Or maybe I am just crazy and it takes me a few days to fully appreciate the beauty of your artwork ^_^. So…um… anyways, thankee for comic!

Well lord if thats her grandpa, which I surmise it is from the amount of people saying such, is she some sort of love child between nature and man :3
Nature says,”We were kids back then, young and we made some mistakes… Someone forgot to take their pills!!” :3

Whoa!!! Awesome. The first thing that comes to mind for me is like a forest spirit or something. It looks like its made of wood and the blood because all the trees were cut down? Anyway I love the big panel. Totally love it!

I’m also thinking “Dream sequence” Because this have all seemed realistic to a point so she’s probably dreaming how the forest has been destroyed since she was just crying on a tree stump… haha now I’m rambling. Keep it up!

Second, it took me a second to realize most of those wounds were made by claws, which then made me wonder what the hell was big enough to have claws like that. Aaaaand then I finally noticed something about the title graphic at the top that I had only given maybe three seconds of thought to. To which I went HMMMMMM. And also, AWESOME. This comic just continues to amaze me with all the little details.

(btw, well done claw-wounds! particularly near the end of the tail where you can obviously see the downward motion of the strike and how the wounds get deeper the further down the rake goes. Kudos to detail!)

Just noticed this webcomic.
An olm? Her Grandfather is an olm? Shouldn’t he be in a cave or somewhere?

Anyway, I just have to say that the characters in this story look so much like Alessandro Barbucci’s art that is almost scary.
Which is a good thing, Barbucci is one of the best and popular comic artists around right now.

The art on this page is.. Wow. Ha ha, I’m so technical I know. I just love how looking at the lizard you can imagine the whole of it first and then you start picking out details like the flap of skin and general beat-down and such.

As for whats going on, my guess? Grandpa there, cause I do agree thats probably who he is, may not be ‘The’ nature spirit, but you don’t get to be a giant talking lizard for nothing, so he probably does have some more magical stuff going for him, and I predict he done and handed some over to Angora. possibly because he was dying, possibly because he can’t go where he needs her to go, whatever.

I figure its these new added earth attunement or whatever you’d like to call it that turned her hair green (I still want to see the flowers xD) and possibly gave her her distaste for clothes. Or mebbe she just lost ’em. Who knows.

Also on the whole grandfather thing.. She might not be related to him like, by blood (although she could be) it might’ve been more of an adoption type thing.

Anywho, I lurve this comic, and I lurve how often you update it (no complaints here!) and I can’t wait to see how it all turns out! :D

Oh, i still think green is her natural color… but not the color she was born with. I think *something* is about to happen. Likely the same *something* that results in her feeling that not wearing clothes is as natural for her as it is for the lizards and squirrels.
I just have no idea what.

I really enjoy your comics, the pictures are really clean cut and nicely done. In my opinion your comic should be rated highly of because the art compared to other online comics are superior. I think that the farther along you develope your story the more popular it will get.
But enough my random yapping. Thank you for sharing this wonderful comic :-)

Been reading *cough*lurking*cough* since about page 8, and I must say I love the reveal!
Axolotl Rainforest kinda-Dragon!
I do hope that is indeed Grandfather :3
I dunno about it being a proper autumn in the rainforest, looks kinda… tropical where she is, for real hot/cold seasons.

so… her hair wasn’t green from the very beginning. Or is that just from the “flashback” coloring? And she DID wear clothes at one point :) Great pages, these. Everything is getting more and more interesting!

anyways. ARGH, so, sooooooooo GOOOD. The colors the mood, the DRAMA. Hi granpa I remember you :D You are still adorable and awesome! Poor guy he really got a working over :C Really nice overhead shot of those two. This is so cinematic I can even ‘ hear ‘ the somber background music